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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Flaubert, Gustave

Flaubert, Gustave
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Madame Bovary: Part 3, Chapters 8 - 10

Part Three, Chapter Eight

In the familiar environs of Rodolphe's house, Emma's heart swells with
nostalgic tenderness. She walks down the dusty stone corridor to his room,
hesitates for a moment, then enters. Rodolphe is astonished to see her, but
quickly tells her she is "charming as ever," and accounts his desertion to
motives upon whose secrecy the life of a third person depends. Overcome by his
presence, Emma half believes him. She tells him how she loved him, how she
suffered. Soon they are sitting with their ...

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